How long are your sessions?

Normally our sessions are one hour in length.  Session length will be determined by the needs of your child.

For kids that are younger than eight years old, usually, 30 minutes is the perfect length.  For children that are older, an hour session works best. There are exceptions for kids with learning disabilities, ADD, and ADHD.  In which case, session time will be based on attention span.

Sometimes, the students’ schedules and my schedule have unique needs that determine whether a 30 minute or a 60-minute session would be better, as well as frequency during the week.

How long will my child need tutoring?

This answer is going to vary based on a couple of factors.

1. Learning speed
2. Learning Disabilities
3. Consistency

Most kids that need tutoring benefit from one on one instruction.  The school is based on a certain curriculum vs. the needs of each individual child.  With one on one tutoring kids can get the exact help that they need at the exact right time.  This allows growth to happen quickly.

If your child has been diagnosed with a learning disability, it will take him more time than other kids.  This is because it takes longer for things to go from his short-term memory to his long-term memory. In this case, your child will benefit from more repetition.   

Another factor is consistency.

Sometimes life gets in the way of students being able to show up for their tutoring sessions.

If students miss too many sessions, then it becomes harder to close the gap.

The more consistent we both are, the better results your child gets.

Do you offer Summer Tutoring?

Yes, I offer summer tutoring.

I work all year long and work hard to tailor a summer program specifically for your child.

Summer is the time of year where kids will suffer from summer learning loss if they are not consistently engaged with the content.

It is important to me that my students do not miss out on this opportune time to close the gap and be secure in (insert what you teach) for the following school year.  

To close the gap and build confidence in my students is why I have created a strong summer tutoring program.

Will I get to work with you?

Yes, the benefit of choosing a specific online tutor is that you will get to work with me directly.

Let’s work as a team to help your child excel

Privacy Policy

Last updated on June 2, 2022.

This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor collects, transmits, and stores information about our Users. The term “you” or “You” or “User” or “Users” shall refer to Students, Tutors or any person or entity who views, uses, accesses, browses or submits any content or material to the Service (defined below). This Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights. Providing your information is voluntary and your use of the Service (defined below) after the effective date of this document constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, do not use the Service.

Information we collect

Information you provide to us

This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect via the website Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor (“Site”), online and mobile applications (“Apps”) (the Site and Apps collectively referred to as, the “Service”), email, telephone, electronic devices and other interactive services. In der to help you get the most out of our service, we collect User submitted personally identifiable information (“PII”) when you use the Service. For example, we may collect information you provide when you create an account. Such information may include your name, address, password, zip code, email address, and phone number for communication purposes. Information may be submitted to the Site or Apps or via telephone or email when communicating with a Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor. For students and parents, we may collect information related to your documentation of and payment for tutoring sessions; tutoring questions related to homework or your studies; teacher feedback of a student (once the parent provides consent for submission); and content you upload for the purposes of transmitting it to another user or for public display on the Site or Apps. As detailed in the “Data Transmission and Storage” section below, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption on any page of the Site where we ask you to submit personally identifiable information and encrypt all such information for safe storage in our system.

Information we collect automatically

We also gather non-PII when you use the Service, including type of browser you use, access time, pages viewed, your IP address; and we collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access the Service, including without limitation operating system and unique device identifiers and mobile network information. This data is used to better understand and enhance the user experience on the Site. Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor may publish these statistics or share them with third parties without including PII. Some browsers allow you to indicate that you would not like your online activities tracked, using “Do Not Track” indicators (“DNT Indicators”),

Data transmission and storage

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor uses industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption when collecting and transmitting your information through the Site and the Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor network (collectively, the “System.”) Once information has been collected, we encrypt sensitive data in our database for added security. Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor also uses firewalls and hardware monitoring across our System to protect against unauthorized access. Unfortunately, even with these measures, Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor cannot guarantee the security of PII. By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor makes no such guarantee, and that you use the Service at your own risk.

Financial information

If you elect to pay for tutoring lessons with a credit card, we will collect your name, credit card number, expiration date, and address information associated with the account. All financial information, other than credit card numbers, is stored and encrypted in our System in full compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. We do not store credit card numbers.

Use of cookies

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor uses cookies to help create a better user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and may be stored on your computer’s hard drive. Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor use cookies to better customize your experience on the Site based on User attributes like your location and account preferences. No personally identifiable information is stored in our cookies. While you may elect to disable or delete cookies from your browser at any time, please note that this action may limit your use of Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor services that require cookies. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s website http://www.networkadvertising.org/ and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. You also can control advertising cookies from Google, by using its Ads Preference Manager. Please note that to the extent advertising technology is integrated into the Site, you may still receive advertisements even if you opt-out of tailored advertising.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor may use PII or other personal information you specifically give to us: a) to provide services to you through the System, b) to process transactions and billing, c) for identification and authentication purposes, d) to communicate with you concerning the System, transactions, security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the System, e) to improve your response to and interaction with the System, f) to do something you have asked us to do, or tell you of services that we think may be of interest to you; g) in the case of teacher feedback of a student, we will transmit it as you ask us to.  Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor shares a minimum amount of information between tutors and students in order to facilitate the arrangement of tutoring sessions. We reserve the right to release non-personally identifiable information collected in aggregate, however. Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our Site, apps and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. If you wish to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting you can do so using the following links: http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/).

Referrals

If you choose to refer our service, to tell a friend about our Service, we will ask you for your friend’s email address and contact your friend.  Your friend may contact us at castlerocktutoring@gmail.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Minors

This Service is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age.

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide your contact information or any other personally identifiable information to Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor. If you are the parent or legal guardian of someone under the age of 13 who may have provided us with information without your knowledge or consent, please contact us to have this information removed. All contact, including tutoring sessions, between a tutor and any minor should, of course, take place only in a supervised setting.  Supervision is the responsibility of the parent.

Legal requests and business transfers

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor may disclose personal information when we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law or enforce or apply our Terms of Service. In the event of a change in control of Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor business, personal information may be exchanged as part of a merger, sale, or other business transfer. If such a transfer makes a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of any changes.

Your choices

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor may send you email communications periodically detailing new features or promotions on the Site. You may unsubscribe from these messages by using the link at the bottom of the email. We may also send you email messages about the status of your account or any notices as required by law. You may not opt-out of receiving these administrative emails so long as you continue to use this voluntary service. If you wish to terminate your account, please contact us.

Your California Privacy Rights

California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please submit your request in an email to castlerocktutoring@gmail.com.

Privacy policy changes

Castle Rock Online Reading Tutor reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy, from time to time, due to modifications to the Site’s features and functionality. We will post any changes here and indicate the new effective date of the Privacy Policy at the top of the document. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy for any updates while you are an active User of the Site.

Users Outside the United States

The Site is hosted in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are using the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our databases are operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. We do abide by the laws of our country and are compliant with other countries as well so that we can continue to offer tutoring services to students all over the world.

Contact information

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to castlerocktutoring@gmail.com or to the mailing address below.

Ann K Mitchell

325 Dunhill Street

Castle Rock, CO 80104

Email Services

“We use Convertkit to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. Convertkit is a third-party provider, which may collect and process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. Convertkit’s  privacy policy is available at . https://help.convertkit.com/en/articles/3038130-acceptable-use-policy